October 2010 Math SAT Thread

<p>@sporty04, 1 wrong would yield the same raw score that 1 omit would.</p>

<p>Was the answe 8 rad 2 in the experimental?</p>

<p>do you guys remember what letter the anser to the dice question was? was it E?</p>

<p>what was the question with the answer on the consolidated list as 18 - bacteria curved scatterplot?</p>

<p>just say if it was a graph and the data please or any equations.</p>

<p>^ the question where the line of best fit had a negative slope?</p>

<p>^ i dont even remember lol. if anyone could be more specific, it would be helpful</p>

<p>a=6 b=5 c=5 A=unknown angle
a^2=b^2+c^2-2bccos(A)
When you calculate the angle, you should use another equation</p>

<p>(1/2)(absin(A))=Area
and that is your answer which is 11.999992958602958602586275069275690287608256… something like that
which is 12</p>

<p>You know it’s iso triangle, so you could drop the perpendicular to the longest side, which is also the the midpoint. This creates a 3-4-5 triangle, so the b=6, h=4, Area = 12.</p>

<p>Oh yeah, duh…
oh well, i still go it right.</p>

<p>Can someone explain to me how m=2 for the second to last grid in?</p>

<p>^
What was the question for that grid in?</p>

<p>Was the one with all the dots and circles in the square experimental. The one with 8 rad 2 as the answer?</p>

<p>8 rad 2 was an answer</p>

<p>“What was the question for that grid in?”</p>

<p>If g(x) = x^2 -x, for what value of m does g(m-2) = 12?</p>

<p>U plug in m-2 for x </p>

<p>u get (m-2) ^2 - (m-2) and u just solve it</p>

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<p>plug in m-2 for x
g(m-2)= (m-2)^2 - (m-2)=12
so m^2 - 4m + 4 - m + 2 = 12
m^2 - 5m - 6 = 0
I don’t think you remembered the question correctly. the quadratic gave a positive root and a negative root. oops: the answer was 2, not 6 as this equation gives</p>

<p>for #16, the triangle had one side 6 and one side 8 so how come it couldn’t have been 9 for the third side?</p>

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That would have made it an acute triangle; the question was asking for obtuse</p>

<p>Ever heard of a 3-4-5 triangle?</p>

<p>This is a 3-4-5 triangle, except each dimension is doubled.
(6-8-10 triangle)</p>

<p>^
Was one of the possible answers to that 13?</p>